October 13, 2016

Get Your Winter Cornhole Fix and Say Farewell, Furloughs! – Thursday’s Roundup

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It’s been almost a year since Atlantic City’s Wonder Bar got a refit. Like a lot of places around here, it was struggling to straddle the seasons – its bay-side deck make it a great summer hangout, but what to do in the winter? Apparently, the answer is indoor Cornhole and who are we to disagree. The Press of Atlantic City paid a visit to check it out. (The place is also a favored watering hole of local politicians, according to those in the know.)

Meanwhile, thanks to a drop in gas prices, Atlantic County has spent less than expected this year on its fleet of vehicles. Those savings, coupled with the fact that some county employees retired, led the county to cancel its planned furlough days for the rest of the year. That’s the good news for county employees. The bad news, according to The Press of Atlantic City, is that vacancies left by retiring employees are not being filled and some staff are now doing multiple people’s jobs.  “We’re bare bones now, but times are tough,” County Executive Dennis Levinson said.

Here are some more links to top local stories:

Distant memories and faded photographs are now more vivid and permanent for seven South Jersey Holocaust survivors whose siblings, murdered by the Nazis, were artistically rendered as 5-foot charcoal portraits drawn by international artist Manfred Bockelmann. He drew the survivors’ siblings from photographs provided by the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center to give faces to some of the 1.5 million children murdered during the Holocaust.

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